United States President Joe Biden said on Friday that “the fastest way” that would allow women to once again benefit from the right to abortion would be to pass a law in Congress.
As a reminder, the Supreme Court of the United States revoked the constitutional right to abortion on June 24th.
Biden indicated that "his hope" was "that women will turn out in numbers to claim the rights that have been taken away from them by the court."
We cannot let an “out of control” Supreme Court restrict freedoms, the American president justified, by signing a limited scope decree at the White House supposed to mitigate the impact of the historic decision of the highest court in the country .
Calling the Supreme Court decision 'extreme' and 'totally wrong', the US president said it was 'a crude exercise of political power', not a 'constitutional judgment' .
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Alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden appealed to American justice: "I ask the Department of Justice, as they have done in the age of civil rights, to do something, to do everything in their power to protect these women who seek to claim their rights.
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